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Sukhumi Babushara Airport (IATA: SUI, ICAO: UGSS),[3] previously known as Sukhumi Dranda Airport, and also known as Vladislav Ardzinba Sokhumi International Airport (ICAO: URAS),[4] is the main airport of Abkhazia. It is located in the village of Babushara next to the larger village of Dranda and some 20 kilometres (12 mi) from Sukhumi, the capital of the autonomous republic.

Sokhumi Babushara Airport
IATA: SUI ICAO: UGSS
Summary
Airport type	Public / Military
Serves	Sukhumi
Location	Abkhazia / Georgia[1]
Elevation AMSL	53 ft / 16 m
Coordinates	42°51′29″N 041°07′41″E
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 12/30 3,661 12,012 Concrete
Source: DAFIF[2]

History

The airport was built in the mid-1960s, when the region was part of the Soviet Union. In the Soviet era, it was used only for domestic flights, primarily to transport people from across the Soviet Union to the sunny beaches of Abkhazia. The airport was heavily damaged during the civil war in the early 1990s. Land mines and other explosive remnants of war have been cleared from the airport since by the HALO Trust, the only land mine clearance agency active in Abkhazia at the present time.

The airport is currently only used for flights to the mountain village of Pskhu and for flights carried out by Russian Air Force.^{[verification needed]}

In 2006, the government of the Republic of Abkhazia expressed its desire to resume international air traffic in the future;[5] however, the facility is not recognized as an international airport by ICAO, and flights can be allowed only with the permission of the Georgian government.[6]

There is another airport in Abkhazia near Gudauta, which serves Russian military troops located there, and an airstrip in Pskhu.

Future plans

In July 2019, the leadership of Abkhazia issued a decree to open the “Vladislav Ardzinba Sukhumi International Airport” for international flights.[7]

See also

• 1993 Sukhumi airliner attacks

External links

• Babushara airport on Airliners.net

References

На других языках

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[de] Flughafen Sochumi-Babuschara

Der Flughafen Sochumi-Babuschara (IATA: SUI, ICAO: UGSS)[1][2], früher als Flughafen Sochumi-Dranda bekannt, ist der Hauptflughafen von Abchasien. Er liegt im Dorf Babuschara neben dem größeren Dorf Dranda und etwa 20 Kilometer von Sochumi, der Hauptstadt der autonomen Republik, entfernt.

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- [en] Sukhumi Babushara Airport

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[es] Aeropuerto de Babushara

El Aeropuerto Internacional de Babushara (ruso: Междунароный аэропорт Бабушара - Mezhdunarodniy aeroport Babushara), también es conocido como Sujum-Dranda (ruso: Сухум-Дранда) o Sujum Babushera (ruso: Сухум-Бабушера), es el aeropuerto de la ciudad de Sujum. Es el único aeropuerto internacional de Abjasia, región separatista de Georgia.

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[fr] Aéroport de Soukhoumi-Dranda

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[ru] Сухум (аэропорт)

Международный аэропорт Суху́м имени В. Г. А́рдзинба — аэропорт города Сухума, столицы Абхазии. Расположен вблизи села Бабушара, в 18 километрах к юго-востоку от Сухума, в Колхидской низменности, на берегу Сухумской бухты Чёрного моря, что обеспечивает посадку с двух сторон, ввиду чего выгодно отличается от аэропорта Сочи.

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